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If We Burn by Vincent Bevins
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world — and what comes next
From 2010 to …
A heartbreaking dad of staggering mopeness.
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The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world — and what comes next
From 2010 to …
The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. He went beyond the existing ghost …
Representative democracy cannot expand the purview of democracy itself and cannot effect a revolution across all of society. Electoral politics always reaches its limit when faced with the power of capital. Politics does not exist separately from the economy-rather, it is subordinate to it.
— Slow Down by Kōhei Saitō
Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at …
Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at …
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs …
Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a “political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,” Cory Doctorow …
[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, …
At a fun party, mostly of educated, well-paid professionals, a multi-racial, multigenerational evening, the subject of disciplining kids by hitting was raised… As one man bragged about the aggressive beatings he had received from his mother, sharing that “they had been good for him,” I interrupted and suggested that he might not be the misogynist woman-hater he is today if he had not been brutally beaten by a woman as a child.
— All About Love by bell hooks
Imagine not only getting owned this badly at a party, but also having it recorded in a bestselling book
"Nothing was happening as yet, I myself had not even any mental picture of what was going to happen; and yet there was a perpetual vague sense of danger, a consciousness of some evil thing that was impending. However little you were actually conspiring, the atmosphere forced you to feel like a conspirator. You seemed to spend all your time holding whispered conversations in corners of cafes and wondering whether that person at the next table was a police spy."
Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a “political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,” Cory Doctorow …
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its …